A RETIRED American millionaire who stabbed his wife to death as he battled to stop her benefiting from their impending divorce was convicted of murder today.

A jury took less than four hours to unanimously convict 65-year-old Harold Landry of murdering Lucy Landry - a former Coventry University student - and reject his claim that he was provoked into killing her at their home near Pershore, Worcestershire.

Landry, who told his seven-day trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court that he could not remember inflicting 23 stab wounds on his wife, will be sentenced tomorrow.